Paraplegic Gets Robbed for Medications
posted 4:06 pm Thu March 20, 2008 - Woodford, Va.
A Caroline county paraplegic man was
robbed in his home and the only thing the robbers took was his medications.
Robert Newcomb continues to live in fear because of what happened early
Wednesday morning. Before dawn a young man burst into his home with a shotgun
demanding Oxycontin.
"He said 'give me the Oxycontin. I know you got it, you're in a wheelchair I
know you got it' and I said I don't have Oxycontin, my doctor don't give me
that and he said 'you're a liar!'".
After the robber fled the scene with a box filled with medications, Newcomb
called the police. Before police arrived, the robber returned with the shotgun
and rampaged through Newcomb's home for more medication.
Unable to defend himself, the 42-year-old thought his life was over. "I
thought I was dead. There wasn't any question in my mind and the next thought,
that really scared me, is that I won't be able to see my kids no more."
The robber took hundreds of dollars in painkillers, which will be difficult if
not impossible for this unemployed man to replace. Newcomb said he could
barely pay the rent for his home and now feels he should find a new place to
live.
"I don't want to go through this again. I don't want to go through the dilemma
of what's going to happen again or wondering is that somebody coming through
my door again in the middle of the night," he said.
Newcomb told the Sheriff's department that the robber was a tall, white male
in his mid 20's.
No arrests have been made.